When Code Is Cheap, Does Quality Still Matter?
The other day we were having a casual conversation on quality and looking at a few code examples. If you want serious engineering, you want your code to use a few principles lik...
Engineering, Leadership, and Life
I write about software engineering, leadership, and the judgment built through messy systems, team decisions, mistakes, and curiosity beyond work.
Why Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Is a Masterpiece
I don’t know the last time I rated a movie 10 out of 10. I went to IMDb and found out it was in 2014. I’m more selective now when I watch movies, but that doesn’t change how goo...
Why We Ignore Advice
The other day, I caught myself giving advice again. I do that a lot. Probably too much. While I was talking, something hit me. I have been told the right thing many times in my...
The Mirror Is Part of the Machine
The most fun telemetry problems I've seen usually start with an incident where we could not see enough, so we added the missing field after the postmortem. Then that justincase...
When Too Many Maps Overlap on One Person
You have a proposal. And someone suggested checking with Mike. It does not sound like a problem. It sounds like due diligence, like someone being careful, like a team that knows...